Mandrake

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning So 7:13Genesis 30:14–16

The passages, in Bible order (1)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 1 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 30:14–16

   Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 30:14–162 voices

   “Some say that the mandrake is a plant whose fruit resembles apples, which have a scent and are edible. So by means of these mandrakes, with cheerfulness seasoned with faith, Leah made Jacob take her that night.

   “And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest,.... Leah's eldest son, who is supposed to be at this time about four or five years of age (e), who went out from the tent to the field, to play there perhaps; and this was at the time of wheat harvest, in the month Sivan, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our May; a time of the year when the earth is covered with flowers: and found mandrakes in the field; the flowers or fruit of mandrakes, mandrake apples, as the Septuagint.

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